Six-year-old Ebola patient taken from DR Congo hospital found and 'doing well'

Emery Makumeno BBC Africa, Kinshasa Reuters Ebola is spread by contact with bodily fluids. A six-year-old Ebola patient, who Congolese authorities were searching for after armed men stormed the hospital where she was being treated, has been found and is "doing well", a local health official has told the BBC.

On Wednesday, Dr Lubambo Maboko Gaston said that a girl and her mother had been taken by "very angry" men from a hospital in the eastern city of Butembo, two days previously.

It is unclear whether the men were known to the child, but suspicion and fear surrounding Ebola treatment centres have been rife during the current outbreak.